To shore up its precarious majority in the next midterm elections, the House Republican campaign committee is going after over twenty Democrats in the chamber.
On Monday, the NRCC unveiled their preliminary list of 2026 midterm targets, which comprised 26 Democrats spanning the whole country.
When the House is fully constituted, Republicans hold a 220-215 majority.
The leader of the National Republican Senatorial Committee is hopeful about the upcoming midterm elections, even though the ruling party—the Republicans—already confronts significant electoral obstacles.
An interview with AWN’s “Fox and Friends” featured Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., who highlighted the fact that thirteen out of twenty-six House Democrats they are aiming to unseat are from districts that “were carried by President Donald Trump in the last election.”
The next elections, according to Hudson, will be a “opportunity election for House Republicans.”
“We are bullish,” Hudson continued, as he is leading the House GOP’s campaign arm for the second consecutive cycle. Because of Donald Trump, Republicans are now in the offensive.
The following Democrats are on the NRCC’s hit list: Dave Min (47th), Josh Harder (9th District), Adam Gray (13th), George Whitesides (27th), Derek Tran (45th), and Dave Min (47th) of California; Darren Soto (9th) and Jared Moskowitz (23rd) of Florida; Frank Mrvan (1st) of Indiana, Jared Golden (2nd) of Maine; Kristen McDonald Rivet (8th) of Michigan; Don Davis (1st) of North Carolina; Chris Pappas (1st) of New Hampshire; Nellie Pou (9th) of New Jersey; and Gabe Vasquez (2nd) of New Mexico.
Members of the following states are also included: Nevada’s Dina Titus (1st), New York’s Susie Lee (3rd), and Steven Horsford (4th); New York’s Tom Suozzi (3rd), Ohio’s Marcy Kaptur (9th) and Texas’s Vicente Gonzalez (34th); Virginia’s Eugene Vindman (7th) and New Mexico’s Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (3rd) are also on the list.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), an adversary organization, has just unveiled a roster of incumbents it deems as Frontliners, or those it perceives as most susceptible to challenge.
Representatives Jahana Hayes (CT), John Mannion (NY), and Janelle Bynum (OR) were all named to the DCCC list but omitted from the NRCC list.
Although they weren’t designated as Frontliners, Moskowitz, Pappas, and Soto were included on the NRCC list.
In response, the DCCC utilized their success from last November’s elections, when Democrats managed to chip away at the GOP’s House majority.
“House Democrats overperformed across the country in 2024, powered by our battle-tested candidates who won despite the NRCC’s false bravado and these Frontliners will win again in the midterms,” Viet Shelton, a spokesman for the DCCC, said. “The truth is House Republicans are running scared and refusing to hold town halls because they don’t want to get yelled at for their failure to lower prices, bungling the economy, and cutting Medicaid in order to pay for tax breaks for billionaires like Elon Musk.”